Philips webcam

[Dotan Cohen]

On 04/01/2008, anthony baldwin <anthony.baldwin01 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Your own machine=Your computer....

That was obvious. How do you want me to search it, and what am I
looking for? If what I'm looking for is already on the computer, then
why doesn't the webcam work?

> You know, the one with ubuntu on it, on which you are reading this message,
> which includes the pwc module that you need, already packaged with the
> kernel.

Until I read Gerald's message I did not know that I need a pwc module,
and I still don't know what a pwc module is. I'm only a mechanical
engineer, not a computer scientist, but I'm doing my best.

> Of course, how to find that module might be unclear.
> In all likelihood, if you plug the camera in, ubuntu will find it and it
> will
> just work, because ubuntu will auto-detect the device and find the
> module for you.

No, that was not the case. That's why I turned to the list.

> Many peripherals just work now.
> Worst case scenario, ubuntu will say, "Hey...dude...I found new hardware...
> what do you want me to do with it?" and give you a dialog box in which
> you can fish for the driver it needs, which, in all likelihood, will be
> listed in
> there with other similar drives, because, at the very least, will know
> it's a webcam.

That didn't happen either.

> Personally, I know nothing about webcams, but I know that ubuntu had
> no problem when I added a printer, or connected my Canon.
> It just finds stuff and just works.

My printer and other devices Just Work (tm) but this webcam does not.

> and some people still insist that Linux is too hard...
> Linux rocks!

Linux may rocks, but this webcam is scissors.

> /tony

Dotan Cohen

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